So I’d heard about Gemma, but we never seemed to be browsing in Bakka on the same day of the night of the full moon.
John Rose, the owner, kept saying: You must know Gemma. I frequently purchased from Bakka Books, which at that time was Toronto’s only SF/F/H bookstore. Every month I would watch the cash register tally up four or more hardcover titles, depleting my finances and overburdening my bookshelves. I’d been a fanatical purchaser of vampire books and had a vast collection of titles (which now exceeds 1700, God help me!) Vampire volumes had come into vogue by then, and since I’d managed to acquire just about everything written prior to that time, I was relegated to the fresh blood of newly published works.
I FIRST MET GEMMA FILES in Toronto in the early 1990s. Colorful, powerful, and charismatic, her characters are rendered in bold strokes and poignant nuances." -NPR.com "What makes We Will All Go Down Together so riveting isn’t its ideas or imagery, as richly atmospheric and detailed as they are. Truly one-of-a-kind: violent, carnal and creepy. When we speak of the best in contemporary horror and weird fiction, we must speak of Gemma Files." -Laird Barronīoundary-busting horror-fantasy … This promising debut fully delivers both sizzling passions and dark chills. She is, simply put, one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today.
Gemma Files has one of the great dark imaginations in fiction-visionary, transgressive, and totally original. “The recent republication of Gemma Files’s first two collections of short fiction, Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart, was a reminder of how long and how well she has been writing.” - Locus Read moreĬover.jpg Praise for the Writing of Gemma Files Colorful, powerful, and charismatic, her characters are rendered in bold strokes and poignant nuances.” -NPR.org “What makes We Will All Go Down Together so riveting isn’t its ideas or imagery, as richly atmospheric and detailed as they are. “One of the genre’s most original and innovative voices.” - Los Angeles Review of Books No matter where they live-Warsaw during World War II, British India, or modern-day Toronto-their realities are not our own, but ones in which we’ll willingly immerse ourselves for a terrifying moment or two . . . The second collection from the author of Kissing Carrion, whose stories “overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror” ( Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts).Īs two-time Bram Stoker Award winner Paula Guran said in Horror Garage, “Nobody in a Gemma Files story puts a hand on a doorknob and opens the door they shouldn’t-these folks are already in the other side.” The inhabitants of the stories in The Worm in Every Heart include gods and madmen, arsonists and ancient vampires, monsters and mothers who don’t know how to love.
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